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calling_net2016-11-14 04:58 am
caduceusoncall) wrote in calling_net2016-11-14 04:58 am
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CALL Network | Video | UN: Mercy
[It's an exciting day for the wandering doctor. Today, the outpost has given her a tent and an adjacent half-collapsed shack to live in and work from. Two months of hopping in and out of the cities, seeking inns and hotels and motels everywhere she went. Two months since she was thrown head first into the Seven-Fold City. She settles down at her new "desk", a recently bleach-scrubbed plastic table, and props her CALL device up on some books.
The screen flickers to life, and the face of a plain-clothes Angela Ziegler is made public. She clears her throat and begins, in a distinct German accent:]
Hello! Some of you may recognize me already but for those of you who don't, this will be half introductory and half informative. I am fairly new to this world - I've only been here for...two months? Maybe a little less. I have extensive training as a field medic and surgeon, so I have been traveling from city to city and offering my aid. You may call me Doctor Ziegler...or Mercy.
[She hesitates before saying her old call sign. Does it make her Overwatch again to use that name? No, she decides. It's who she is and it's a name she'll remember to respond to automatically. She squares her shoulders and looks straight into the camera.]
This is an announcement to let any of my previous patients, or future patients I suppose, know that I am now officially set up in the Outpost. I am reachable at any time through this device, this network, or by in-person visits to my station. Should I be absent on a call in a different city, contact me digitally. If you are not able to do so, please ask someone near my station to contact me for you.
[A bit redundant perhaps. Her shoulders relax and her smile softens. She says one last thing before she reaches out to turn the camera off. A gentle, motherly voice. A blessing.]
Stay safe, stay healthy. I am with you.
The screen flickers to life, and the face of a plain-clothes Angela Ziegler is made public. She clears her throat and begins, in a distinct German accent:]
Hello! Some of you may recognize me already but for those of you who don't, this will be half introductory and half informative. I am fairly new to this world - I've only been here for...two months? Maybe a little less. I have extensive training as a field medic and surgeon, so I have been traveling from city to city and offering my aid. You may call me Doctor Ziegler...or Mercy.
[She hesitates before saying her old call sign. Does it make her Overwatch again to use that name? No, she decides. It's who she is and it's a name she'll remember to respond to automatically. She squares her shoulders and looks straight into the camera.]
This is an announcement to let any of my previous patients, or future patients I suppose, know that I am now officially set up in the Outpost. I am reachable at any time through this device, this network, or by in-person visits to my station. Should I be absent on a call in a different city, contact me digitally. If you are not able to do so, please ask someone near my station to contact me for you.
[A bit redundant perhaps. Her shoulders relax and her smile softens. She says one last thing before she reaches out to turn the camera off. A gentle, motherly voice. A blessing.]
Stay safe, stay healthy. I am with you.
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A lot of my previous experience is in field medicine and providing advanced medical aid in unsanitary or otherwise unsettled areas. Many of the people who come through the outpost are ill-prepared for expeditions or wind up overwhelmed in the wilderness. Even those who are just visiting can usually use a little patching up on their way! I wind up here in the Outpost so often that this became the most logical choice for a 'home base'.
[One day, Doctor Ziegler will learn to keep her responses short. She crops and edits her response many times in the hope of being less...long-winded. She has clearly failed.]
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Careful while you're out there, though. During breeding season, you can end up with a dragon in your pack.
I guess I was curious since I spend most of my time in Tomorrow.
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But it certainly doesn't need another doctor, whereas the outpost is severely understaffed for the types of injuries I've seen (although I admit I AM itching to get into the academy and work in the lab).
I haven't come across any dragons yet, but I'll keep that in mind for the future. It may sound silly to ask but, are they really massive winged lizards that breathe fire? The legends I've heard come from a real storyteller of a man.
[Angela makes a note to stock up on supplies for the treatment of bite and claw wounds, as well as finish her work on that horribly primitive salve for burns. She stops half way through and shakes her head, letting it sink in that there are dragons - just like Reinhardt used to tell stories about - and there is a real possibility that she will cross paths with one.]
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And the dangers in Nightmare are also very real. Keep that in mind as well.
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But if there are dragons out there I'll have to establish a contact to make sure burn and bite/claw wounds are being taken care of with more than just spells and superstition.
As for Nightmare, so far my current biotic technology doesn't seem to work on non-human subjects. Correcting that will take a lot of research.
Which is not to say that I am unwilling to do that research! If I can cure or lessen the dangers of Vampirism and Lycanthropy, I'll be "over the moon" as an old colleague used to say!
[Reaching for her notebook again, Angela makes yet another note: Tissue and blood samples of all "supernatural" disease types. Pester that university until they let her use that lab. And a bit below all that: Find someone who is willing to loiter around or transit through Sorcery because she sure as hell doesn't want to.
She can't stand the dismissal of science in favor of "magic". Ridiculous superstition.]
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And if you want to cure vampirism, I'm sure there'll be a few people interested. But some people who aren't. Careful you don't step on too many toes.
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You seem very knowledgeable about the cities - have you been here long?
[She may or may not be feeling out the likelihood of being able to trade supplies for information or samples for research. She doesn't get a lot of free time and, in all honesty, she knows that if she has someone who is more familiar with the cities and the subjects within them working alongside her, she's thrice as likely to succeed.]
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